NHS receives unlawful killing verdict for epidural error
Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, February 19, 2008
A National Health System (NHS) trust has been given an unlawful killing verdict for the first time for gross negligence after a female patient died after receiving an epidural drug into a vein in her hand through an intravenous drip instead of into the space of her spinal cord, reports The Guardian.
The NHS trust was charged specifically for substandard storage of drugs in the maternity unit of Great Western hospital, which has had two similar, but non-fatal, incidents in the past 20 years, according to the NHS. It now stores the epidural drug, Bupivacaine, in locked cabinets, separate from intravenous drugs, reports The Guardian.
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